CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-0597

10.0 HIGH Published 2004-11-23 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2004-11-23
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in libpng 1.2.5 and earlier, as used in multiple products, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed PNG images in which (1) the png_handle_tRNS function does not properly validate the length of transparency chunk (tRNS) data, or the (2) png_handle_sBIT or (3) png_handle_hIST functions do not perform sufficient bounds checking.

Affected configurations

• greg roelofs libpng (<= 1.2.5) • microsoft msn messenger 6.1 • microsoft msn messenger 6.2 • microsoft windows media player 9 • microsoft windows messenger 5.0 • microsoft windows 98se • microsoft windows me

References